Katie Jones is Lecturer in French at the University of Nottingham. She previously completed an MA in Modern and Contemporary German Studies in 2004 and a PhD in Comparative Literature in 2009 at the University of Nottingham. From 2008 to 2010 she taught in the Department of English at the Université de Paris VII (Denis Diderot).

• Contents: Towards a Literary Theory of Disgust – Disgust and the Gendered Body: Amélie Nothomb and Jenny Erpenbeck – Existential Disgust and Lebensekel: Sibylle Berg and Lorette Nobécourt – Disgust and Politics: Monika Maron and Marie Darrieussecq – Disgust and Aesthetics: Alina Reyes and Charlotte Roche.

Katie Jones is Lecturer in French at the University of Nottingham. She previously completed an MA in Modern and Contemporary German Studies in 2004 and a PhD in Comparative Literature in 2009 at the University of Nottingham. From 2008 to 2010 she taught in the Department of English at the Université de Paris VII (Denis Diderot).

• Contents: Towards a Literary Theory of Disgust – Disgust and the Gendered Body: Amélie Nothomb and Jenny Erpenbeck – Existential Disgust and Lebensekel: Sibylle Berg and Lorette Nobécourt – Disgust and Politics: Monika Maron and Marie Darrieussecq – Disgust and Aesthetics: Alina Reyes and Charlotte Roche.

Katie Jones is Lecturer in French at the University of Nottingham. She previously completed an MA in Modern and Contemporary German Studies in 2004 and a PhD in Comparative Literature in 2009 at the University of Nottingham. From 2008 to 2010 she taught in the Department of English at the Université de Paris VII (Denis Diderot).

• Contents: Towards a Literary Theory of Disgust – Disgust and the Gendered Body: Amélie Nothomb and Jenny Erpenbeck – Existential Disgust and Lebensekel: Sibylle Berg and Lorette Nobécourt – Disgust and Politics: Monika Maron and Marie Darrieussecq – Disgust and Aesthetics: Alina Reyes and Charlotte Roche.